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Ok funniest thing I've seen on tv in ages - NewsMax magazine schilling for subscribers by attempting to drum up fear of terrorists and offering a free emergency radio to all new subscribers. You'd think they'd have updated and now be threatening people with dire warnings of the civil war to come now that the US is starting its inevitable (and horrifying!) slide towards Socialism. C'mon, people, keep up!

Of course why I was able to see said commercial is because I decided a mental health day was in order. Why you might ask? ( Unmitigated whining below the cut: )

On the plus side it's official, HCR made it through the House and it looks like the Dems have succeeded pretty much in spite of themselves. Is it everything we progressives wanted? No. Is it going to make the lives of millions of people, myself, friends and family included, a whole lot better? Yes indeed. I'm having trouble imagining life without the terror of one relatively bad illness completely decimating me financially, and/or losing any future health coverage because of it. I can't quite wrap my brain around it yet but I look forward to doing so.

The other plus side, of course, is the massive freak-out the wingnuts are currently engaging in. You've got everything from David Frum's morose declaration that the loss on the HCR front is the GOP's Waterloo to commenters over at Confederate Yankee declaring Civil War:

We have a war now, should this become law. The little liberal weenies who have been crying about illegal wars over seas are about to have a real reason to cry. This shall not stand in my land.

Never.

Posted by: Odins Acolyte at March 22, 2010 09:47 AM

D. Aristophanes at Sadly, No! labels this "Excellence in the Field of Impotent Rage" and ends his post with "Ragnarok, bitchez! Indeed.

Apparently the preferred method of Righty-y resistance is stamping their little feet and tossing out their census forms:

Right now my census is on top the fridge not filled out. After losing our liberty today it's staying there.

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I was thinking the same thing when it became clear this was going to pass.

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I too was on the fence. No longer. This made my choice easy.

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Me too!

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...I threw mine in the trash last week. F-EM!

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... The census form I "never got" is sitting on the bottom of my trash can.


To which Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog replies:

Wow -- maybe the recorded population of every red state in the union will plummet. If so, thanks! More federal dollars and seats in Congress for us up in here in Commie Land!

So I expect we can look forward to Rush Limbaugh leaving the country any day now, right?

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Also, via pikabot, my intense crush on Anthony Weiner continues unabated. Link goes to Wonkette's site with video of Weiner verbally bitch slapping Peggy "Our Lady of the Magic Dolphins" Noonan. He even one-ups Howard Dean. I'd almost forgotten what it was like to see a politician speak the truth on a major media program.

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This comment over at Sadly, No! is pretty damned interesting:

wordyeti said,

March 22, 2010 at 19:56

Strange. I hadn’t thought I’d feel this good about this bill passing. I’d become pretty disillusioned with it over the last few months – but a conversation last Friday with the head of UCSF Medical School (basically, UC-Berkeley’s medical wing – one of the top 3 in the world) kinda won me over.

He didn’t like the bill either. But he said, “It’s a starting point. It gets the insurance companies under government control. Short-term, they’re gonna gouge everyone like never before. But long-term, the government is going to start grinding away at those bastards. That’s what the government does. That’s what the GOP was so worried about – long-term, their little corrupt gravy train based on human misery and suffering is going to come to an end.”

BTW – this was a guy who solemnly confirmed that he was indeed a member of a death panel already. That he had to make the decisions every damn day about who will get care and who will not – only those are following the mandates of insurance company dickslaps who make their quarterly bonus by finding excuses to not give people the treatment they need. His job sucks.

Today it sucks just a tiny bit less. Our lives suck just a bit less.

That is not the huge Change we Hoped for. But it is a change in a positive direction, and I believe in it.

Amen.